Scans of various items from my life and written about each day in 2011.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Bruins/Sharks Roster, 2/10/09

The Bruins seem to do badly when I blog about them on a game day, so I thought I’d get this one in before Boston-Detroit Part II tomorrow…

Two seasons ago, the B’s and Sharks had the best two records in the NHL. I went to the game with my friend Patrick, who always refers to the Bruins/Sharks games as the “Stanley Cup Preview”. This game came with huge hype, but was a big letdown when the Bruins fell to San Jose 5-2. And, neither team even made it to the Finals that year.

In addition to the anticipation of these NHL Powerhouses meeting, I was also interested in a certain player who had made his way onto the San Jose roster.It was #32, Claude Lemieux:

I was never a big fan of Claude.He used his stick a lot and would back down from fights if someone challenged him.Specifically, he did this to Cam Neely: He most likely backed down because he knew Cam could do things like this:

So, for just about the entire 10 minutes and 1 second Claude was on the ice for this game, I was yelling at him.I’m not very proud of the things I yelled, but they referred to his age (43), how I thought he wasn’t “very tough”, and that he should give up playing hockey.I don’t know if most of the crowd knew why I was doing it, but I didn’t care.They were things I wanted Claude to hear.

After the game, my friend Patrick and were having dessert with my dad.Patrick (from the San Jose area) was gloating a bit, and my father was complaining about how the Bruins didn’t always play the full 60 minutes.I was in my usual post-Bruins-loss-chocolate-brownie-Sundae stupor, but was still hopeful that the B’s would go far in the playoffs.

My dad, Patrick, and I left Legends and were walking down a hallway to see if we could talk to some of the players.My father turned his head laughing and says, “Hey Dave, it’s your buddy!”To get to the waiting area, I had to say “excuse me” to Claude, the guy I had just yelled at for every second he was playing.My friend Patrick got a huge kick out of it, and joked that I should have asked him if he heard me.I didn’t say a thing, and I’m still not a fan…

Even though the B’s got destroyed last night, I still think this team is going to surprise a lot of people this year.GO B’s!!!